Our Halloween run continues as our mate Gemma joins us to revisit her horrifying history with the Point Horror series, courtesy of Caroline B. Cooney’s Freeze Tag. We’re heading back to a world of ominous paperback covers, American teenage envy and playground games with potentially fatal consequences. Along the way, we discuss childhood cruelty, teenage … Continue reading FREEZE TAG – Halloween 2026 cont’d
Tag: Breakfast in the Ruins
Episode 150 – The Magic Faraway Tree
It's our 150th episode, and we've now been at this for seven Earth years! So how do we celebrate this milestone? By sitting on the sofa and gassing about one of our earliest reads, a book we read in the 1970s that turned out, on reflection, to be a massive gateway drug in terms of … Continue reading Episode 150 – The Magic Faraway Tree
New Edges For Old Heroes w/ Oliver Brackenbury
Oliver Brackenbury returns to Derry & Toms to talk about the next phase of his excellent mag New Edge Sword and Sorcery. Moorcock talk, uncovering and unleashing a golden age hero anew and copious amounts of caffeine and lemsip dominate. JOIN US. Be sure to check out the Backerkit link for New Edge Sword and … Continue reading New Edges For Old Heroes w/ Oliver Brackenbury
The Fireclown (AKA The Winds of Limbo)
Andy Darby shakes off the Monkey for an evening and drops by D and Ts to take a look at one of Moorcock's 60s SF tales, The Fireclown (later retitled The Winds of Limbo but I'm sticking with the original title for vaguely defined reasons related to being old and finnicky). Strap in for a … Continue reading The Fireclown (AKA The Winds of Limbo)
Breakfast in the Ruins Radio!
Breakfast in the Ruins is now broadcasting across the multiverse as an internet radio station! It's early days and I'm still figuring the technicalities out so it's not in any public directories yet but it is up and running and you can find old school radio player feeds and other basic info here. This will … Continue reading Breakfast in the Ruins Radio!
Entropic State Report 11th September 2020
Autumn is upon us (or Fall for our American pards... interestingly I learned from the grey fees only a few days ago that the British nomenclature of Autumn is only a fairly recent thing (century or so) and prior to that we said Fall too, but I digress) and temperatures are plummeting up here int' … Continue reading Entropic State Report 11th September 2020
